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Anthony Bourdain
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Matt Johnson the Filmmaker the Profile: Meet the rebel director conquering the Hollywood movie machine
BlackBerry
catapulted the indie filmmaker into the mainstream. Now he’s making the Bourdain biopic
Tony
. Can a pop culture–obsessed terminal adolescent learn to play by the industry’s rules?
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Food & Drink
The Toronto location of Vietnam’s Michelin-starred Lunch Lady is now open
Late chef and founder Nguyen Thi Thanh started it as a soup stall in Ho Chi Minh City—now it’s on Ossington
Culture
A date with Anthony Bourdain, a Bowie tribute and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of October 31
Food & Drink
Year in Review: the 17 biggest food stories of 2013
Toronto’s food scene has its idiosyncrasies, but it doesn’t exist in a bubble. There’s a bigger food world out there, and...
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Food & Drink
Quoted: Anthony Bourdain sticks up for Canadian seal hunting after Mario Batali boycotts our seafood
— Anthony Bourdain took to Twitter yesterday to speak out against chefs Mario Batali, Michael Symon and hundreds more who've...
Food & Drink
Beloved taco spot Agave y Aguacate is back in Baldwin Village
Mexican-born chef Francisco Alejandri opened a Kensington Market taco stand in 2011, ahead of the current craze. With only a...
Food & Drink
Trend We Hate: the proliferation of “Hogtown”
“Hogtown” has become the go-to restaurant moniker for these pork-mad times. Will the city never live down its despised...
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Food & Drink
The Dish Power Rankings: feasting menus and Maple Leafs edition
Toronto Life’s weekly assessment of the restaurants with the biggest buzz, the longest lineups and the toughest tables to...
Food & Drink
The Dish Toronto Restaurant Power Rankings: game on
Toronto is in the middle of a great restaurant boom. Over 150 restaurants opened in the last year alone, most of them hyped on...
Culture
The Layover in Toronto: Anthony Bourdain’s favourite spots and best quips
For last night’s episode of The Layover, Anthony Bourdain and his merry crew squeezed as many of Toronto’s culinary delights...
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Food & Drink
The best restaurants in North America are all in the U.S., according to Newsweek
For its August 13 and 20 double issue, the editors of Newsweek put together a Restaurant magazine–style list of the 101 best...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Anthony Bourdain on Toronto’s discerning taste
– Anthony Bourdain praising Toronto’s shrewd musical preferences in an interview with Ivy Knight for the Globe and Mail...
Food & Drink
CNN Travel lists the St. Lawrence Market as one of the world’s 10 best fresh markets
The St. Lawrence Market is having a moment: not only did celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain recently stop by to film a segment for...
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Food & Drink
Here’s where Anthony Bourdain stopped by during his Toronto layover
Regular Dish readers will know that Anthony Bourdain, TV’s favourite bad-boy chef–turned–professional eater was in town last...
Food & Drink
Spotted: Anthony Bourdain at St. Lawrence Market, probably shooting No Reservations
Earlier this morning, the nominations for the 64th Emmy Awards were announced, and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations received four...
Culture
Bob Blumer to travel world, eat from toilets in his new TV show, World’s Weirdest Restaurants
“Want to be served beer by a monkey in a Japanese tavern or dine naked in New York City? How about eating curry out of a...
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Culture
VIDEO: Watch Marge dream about Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay (from Sunday’s foodie episode of the Simpsons)
Food bloggers of the world are bracing themselves for this Sunday’s episode of The Simpsons, wherein Marge becomes a food...
Food & Drink
Frank Bruni on the food world’s big fat double standard
In today’s New York Times, former food critic Frank Bruni weighs in on the food fight between everyone’s favourite loudmouth...
Food & Drink
McSweeney’s posts excerpts from first issue of David Chang’s Lucky Peach mag
In preparation for David Chang ’s impending takeover of Toronto next year, we’re taking a first look at Lucky Peach , the...
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Food & Drink
Locavore, shmocavore—a roundup of the new foodie backlash
You don’t have to look too far to find signs that there’s a foodie backlash brewing. And while we at The Dish may be guilty of...
Food & Drink
Beet versus meat: five things we learned about eating habits from Jonathan Safran Foer and Anthony Bourdain
This week’s debate on what we should be putting in our mouths comes from two extremes of the discussion: Jonathan Safran...
Food & Drink
Despite some reservations, Toronto will appear on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations
Toronto chefs and foodies, take note: Anthony Bourdain , the reformed bad boy of the culinary world, beloved potty mouth and host...
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Marijuana and haute cuisine: Toronto chefs on how some top kitchens are going to pot
The correlation between marijuana and the munchies is no secret, but a New York Times article that went viral a few weeks ago is...
Food & Drink
Fifty tidbits about Nigella Lawson, predicting the food trends of 2010, Anthony Bourdain as a teenager
• Food Network Humour has published a series of photos of famous cooking show hosts in their salad days. Our favourites are...
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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